The Board has granted service connection for diabetes mellitus due to presumed exposure to herbicides in Vietnam. The veteran's PTSD is rated at 50 percent, with significant occupational and social impairment.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence shows that the veteran's PTSD produces total occupational and social impairment, warranting a 50 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 9411.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus, arteriosclerotic heart disease with hypertension, residuals of a cerebrovascular accident (CVA), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- March 3, 2004
- Citation
- 0405727
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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